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Re: Linux over RedBoot
- To: Gary Thomas <gthomas at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Linux over RedBoot
- From: Jesper Skov <jskov at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 14:45:12 +0200
- Cc: Fabrice Gautier <gautier at email dot enst dot fr>,ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com, Jesper Skov <jskov at redhat dot com>
- References: <20010712142618.0FD6.GAUTIER@email.enst.fr><XFMail.20010712063905.gthomas@redhat.com>
>>>>> "Gary" == Gary Thomas <gthomas@redhat.com> writes:
>> How come that the SH port of the linux kernel is cooperating with
>> Redboot? Is it because the ones who initiated the SH port of the
>> linux kernel had choosen redboot as their boot loader? Or has this
>> been added afterward?
Gary> Hard to say, but the fact that Red Hat has done a lot of work on
Gary> the Linux/SH port early on probably helped.
FAOD the other SH boot loaders already provided that feature and
Linux/SH was ready for it. So it was really RedBoot that adopted an
already existing (very nice) feature.
Jesper